Episode 279 Andy Wood

*FILMS DISCUSSED: PIXELS, IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY, PAPER TOWNS, LOST SOUL, MR HOLMES* Chris and Graham welcome back Andy Wood. Andy is still angry they made him watch Pixels. Chris liked the annimation in It’s Such a Beautiful Day. Graham liked Paper Towns after he realized it wasn’t Fault in Our Stars. The Lost Soul doc made Chris want to see Dr. Moreau again. Andy talks about his podcast, Probably Science. Mixed bag of DVDs and not many good reasons to go to the theaters. This ep will give you Val Kilmer stress!

If you’re getting tired of all the big summer blockbuster superhero remake sequel madness, and I can assure you that Mr. Holmes is some excellent counter programming. And frankly, I’ll watch Sir Ian McKellen do just about anything, and most definitely watch him play the great sleuth Sherlock Holmes. I need to see him in…

There haven’t been too many surprises this summer. Mad Max: Fury Road is still the best movie of the season so far, Terminator Genisys was a general disappointment; however, the next biggest movie may have the smallest hero in it, but some of the biggest fun. Yes, Ant-Man is actually quite entertaining. Marvel manages to…

As the best thing about the Despicable Me films, you’d think the Minions would make for a great movie. Unfortunately, instead of creating some kind of fun origin story, which Minions starts to do, they just tell another story of how the minions worked for another uber villain. It’s much the same luke warm fun.…

Any film that spends a sixth of its running time watching its lead characters take ecstasy and following the come-on, the high and the come-down is not playing by the rules. Magic Mike XXL plays by nobody’s rules. Practically plot-free (and, with the exception of a couple of moments in the beginning, totally conflict-free, thereby violating…

Terminator Genisys might win an award for most green screened fight scenes and stunt guys pulled by cables. Or maybe for the highest number of convenient explanations pulled from a characters ass. I think Evel Knievel was in this because, holy shit there were quite a lot of leaps in logic here. I think disbelief…

You know, Ted 2 has way more semen in it than is comfortable. I mean, it ‘s got more semen in it than most gonzo porn films. And let’s face it, I don’t mind some gonzo porn, so wow, you’re talking about a lot of ejaculate. Seth Macfarlane’s humor seems to swing wildly from smart…

I initially thought that making another Jurassic Park film was an exercise in superfluous redundancy. Well, I still kind of think that, but as one of the summer’s surprises, Jurassic World is actually pretty entertaining. Not that the film offers any surprises, mind you. There are no “didn’t see that coming” moments in the film itself.…

Jurassic World is as meticulously crafted as the strange, clean, efficient theme park that is the real central character of the movie. This script knows how to hit a story beat, how to let a cliffhanger of a line lead directly to the next scene, with appropriately cued, swelling music. It knows that a large part…